Web Publishing

All students of The University of Queensland have access to a 100MB file storage area. This storage area can be accessed from any web-enabled computer via my.UQ's myFiles feature, and as an H: drive on all public Library machines. However, the student storage space can also be configured to store publicly-accessible web pages.

This is a guide to web publishing with myFiles, and assumes that you are already familiar with the features of myFiles.

public_html: The Public Web Folder

Web publishing with myFiles is achieved through the creation and configuration of a special folder in a student's storage space. This folder, called public_html, will be a top-level folder in the storage space and only its contents will be publicly accessible-the rest of your storage space will only be accessible via myFiles. Creating this public_html folder is not difficult, as it is done via the Publish a web folder link in myFiles.

To automatically create the public_html folder:

1. Click the myFiles link within my.UQ to open myFiles.
2. Click the "Publish a web folder" link at the top right of the myFile display screen.
   
   
   
3. The following screen will be displayed.
   
   

The screen will refresh to display the contents of the top folder, with the new public_html folder sorted amongst them.

Your personal home page will now be available on the web at http://www.uq.edu.au/~ and http://student.uq.edu.au/~ where is your UQ student username (the same one used to access my.UQ and mySI-net).

The ~ character, known as a tilde (pronounced "tilda"), is usually positioned in the top-left corner of the keyboard.